If every Bob Dylan song tells its own story, how do you tell the story behind the making of some of those earliest songs, and do it in under six minutes? That was the task presented to Jennifer Lebeau, a director and producer who created the documentary short above to promote the release of “The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964,”the latest entry in Mr. Dylan’s “Bootleg Series” of albums.

“The Witmark Demos,” which Columbia/Legacy will release on Tuesday, contains 47 recordings that Mr. Dylan made for Leeds Music and M. Witmark & Sons, the music publishers who signed him to his first songwriting contracts when he arrived in New York. Accompanied only by his guitar (and sometimes his harmonica or a piano), Mr. Dylan performed early but almost fully formed versions of songs like “Blowin’ in The Wind” and “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” which were then given to professional copyists who produced lyrics and sheet music from them.

Combining interviews with Artie Mogul, the executive who signed Mr. Dylan at M. Witmark & Sons, and Izzy Young, the folk music impresario, with archival material provided by Mr. Dylan’s representatives and Columbia Records, Ms. Lebeau’s film chronicles a transitional moment in the music industry.

“It was really that changeover from Tin Pan Alley, when songs were written to be performed by other artists,” Ms. Lebeau said in a telephone interview. “This was the beginning of the singer-songwriter.”

The film, Ms. Lebeau, said, is also an attempt to evoke “Bob Dylan before he was Bob Dylan and really get a sense of that young guy, how spry he was and all the fun of the Village at that time.”

Simply looking at the earliest filmed footage of Mr. Dylan in New York, she said, is enough to remind a viewer that the times have changed many times over since that era.

“Somehow, even a New York City rooftop just doesn’t look the same anymore,” Ms. Lebeau said. “There’s no wires; there’s no satellite dishes. It sounds ridiculous, but you viscerally feel that difference.”